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Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment

December 07, 2016

As the United States' advantage in educational attainment continues to decline, Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University joined together to release Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment.

Type: Report

TAG: College Gap, College and Career Readiness, GPA

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Attendance, College & Career

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Building A GradNation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic (2014)

April 28, 2014

For the first time in U.S. history the nation’s high school graduation rate rose above 80 percent, according to the 2014 Building a GradNation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic report released April 28 by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. While more than eight in 10 public high school students are graduating on time, Building a GradNation shows more good news: the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade, students of color…

Type: Resource

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness, Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Health and Wellness

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

An Early Warning System

January 15, 2014

This article for practitioners summarizes work by Everyone Graduates researchers on early indicators of dropout. They note that high school dropout often has been viewed as an event that is mysterious and difficult to predict. Their work in Philadelphia, however, suggests that the vast majority of dropouts sent signals of being on the path to dropout long before they finally left school. The article describes the early warning indicators that we identified for 6th graders, 8th graders, and high school freshmen.

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

Beyond the Indicators: An Integrated School-Level Approach to Dropout Prevention

January 15, 2014

Beyond the Indicators provides an integrated framework that schools and districts can use to build a foundation to prevent students from dropping out. Based on a tiered public health model, this framework provides universal and school-wide practices designed to produce high attendance, positive behavior, and successful academic achievement for the majority of students. It includes implementing early warning systems that identify students at risk of dropping out, and tiered interventions to insure that struggling students stay on track to graduate.

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University